When Americans tune into the presidential debate, they won’t just be listening to what Donald Trump (R) or Kamala Harris (D) have to say about jobs or healthcare. For many Americans, the candidate’s ideas about China or the Gaza War are just as important.
Unlike in the past, when world affairs seemed far from America, today world affairs is disrupting America.
American universities are being taken over by protests and encampments in support of Palestine; American society is grappling with TikTok, which has over 170 million domestic users, being treated as a Chinese trojan horse; the American homeland is under renewed threat after a man was arrested for planning “the largest attack on US soil since 9/11.”
World affairs is no longer something Americans read about in the news. It is something Americans are seeing with their own eyes.
Geopolitics has arrived in America.
And this is weighing on a portion of the American electorate.
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